And I get a picture in front of the Presidential Palace
All while there's sword fighting going on in the streets
Thursday, December 31, 2009
Just hanging out at the Presidential Palace
And I get a picture in front of the Presidential Palace
Getting ready for the New Year
So I ordered ceviche, but was thinking chorizo. I was planning on trying it out, but not this early. I was planning on saving the night of constant vomiting for a few days from now. The ceviche was delicious though.
Here are some shots of the main square. It looks like they might be setting something up for tonight:
This is a church on the Plaza de Armas. You can see I'm still wearing our passports under my shirt. Those are not leaving my person until I find someplace extremely safe for them. It's not a good look though.
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The unexpected
So, a few things that are unique:
Hardly anybody wears shorts...but I really want to wear shorts. I wonder how offensive it is. If anybody knows, please tell me.
You don't flush toilet paper here, you put it in the trash next to the toilet. Gross, I wonder if it's a habit that'll stick for a while when we're back in the US.
Taxi rides are negotiated at first, no set fees to go anywhere, no paying anymore money if it takes longer to get there.
No tipping. That's not totally unexpected since it's pretty specific to the US, but it makes me feel bad to not tip.
Driving is crazy. Driving=death.
The hotel hasn't taken a credit card or any money. We'll just pay when we're done and we can stay as long or short as we'd like. That seems eerily to trusting to me; I hope it doesn't bite us in the butt at the end.
Their main soda, Inka Kola, tastes like a cream soda I had as a kid in Nebraska.
I don't know why, but almost everything is cheap except toiletries and electronics. I paid about 5 dollars for pretty much the cheapest shampoo they have. No $1.oo Suave here. A wii costs $350.
Off to get some lunch.
Hardly anybody wears shorts...but I really want to wear shorts. I wonder how offensive it is. If anybody knows, please tell me.
You don't flush toilet paper here, you put it in the trash next to the toilet. Gross, I wonder if it's a habit that'll stick for a while when we're back in the US.
Taxi rides are negotiated at first, no set fees to go anywhere, no paying anymore money if it takes longer to get there.
No tipping. That's not totally unexpected since it's pretty specific to the US, but it makes me feel bad to not tip.
Driving is crazy. Driving=death.
The hotel hasn't taken a credit card or any money. We'll just pay when we're done and we can stay as long or short as we'd like. That seems eerily to trusting to me; I hope it doesn't bite us in the butt at the end.
Their main soda, Inka Kola, tastes like a cream soda I had as a kid in Nebraska.
I don't know why, but almost everything is cheap except toiletries and electronics. I paid about 5 dollars for pretty much the cheapest shampoo they have. No $1.oo Suave here. A wii costs $350.
Off to get some lunch.
Just arrived in Peru
We arrived in Peru last night at about 11. To get through cutoms we had to push a buttton. If the light turned green, we just got to go on through. If it turned red, we got all of our stuff rifled through. Fortunately, we got green. The lobby of the airport has people everywhere. We found the guy holding a sign with our name on it who drove us to the hotel. There don't seem to be any enforced traffic laws here. Some kids threw glass at the car. The driver didn't speak much English, but we both knew the word for crazy in each other's language.
Some turtles live outside our hotel room
Some turtles live outside our hotel room
When we got to the hotel, they hadn't cleaned our room yet, so were waiting in the lobby for a while. There are signs all over the place in buildings saying whether a room is safe in an earthquake.
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